human soul towards the conclusion. In the final moment, what has survived amid the emotional and psychological wreckage is, unexpectedly, the marriage. The play ends right where it started. Dance of Death II In Dance of Death II, Alice explains that when the Captain fell down in Part I, it was nearly fatal and has left him paralyzed. He is still able to make some financial speculations that ruthlessly benefit himself and cause Kurt to lose his money. Alice seems tougher and less human than before. Judith, the couple's daughter, wants to marry Kurt's son, Allan, as the children are shown attempting to attain more happiness than their parents are able to find. But Kurt's father has sent him away. Judith is portrayed as a youthful vampire, and there is the sense that this family's cycle of "love-hatred" will go on and on. Films The Dance of Death (France, 1948), with Erich von Stroheim The Dance of Death (West Germany, 1967), with Lilli Palmer Dance of Death (UK, 1969), with Laurence Olivier La danse de mort (France, 1982), TV film by Claude Chabrol References External links Internet Movie Database entries 1962 1980 1996 1900 plays Plays by August Strindberg Plays set in Sweden Plays set in the 1900s Swedish plays adapted into films